Florida Governor Wants Welfare Applicants to Pay for Drug Tests

Florida's Governor Rick Scott (R)

*The governors all over the nation are scrambling to find ways to cut corners, but you just gotta laugh when you hear the idea out of Florida.

It’s reminiscent of an idea D.C. was looking over a few years ago to get the women addicted to crack to stop having babies.  They wanted to pay crackheads $10 every morning if they would come in and take a birth control pill.  Brilliant, right?

This would inadvertently relieve the welfare and social services of caring for another single mother with children.

Well there’s a flaw in the plan, you’re putting out money and then turning around and paying them again with disability. (more…)